EVENT: Unlocking IP 2006 Conference

Monday 10 - Tuesday 11 July 2006
AGSM, UNSW Sydney

The Conference Program (this page) Papers Speakers Photographs

AEShareNet Ltd (principal industry supporter)

Program

This conference program outline sets out the conference themes and sessions, and a list of speakers and topics.

The conference dinner was held on the night of Monday 10 July at Thai Pothong restaurant in King St Newtown. There was a Champagne Farewell (to the conference and to the old law building) on Tuesday 11 July on the 11th floor roof terrace of the UNSW Law Faculty.

There was also a work in progress meeting Wednesday 12th at 11 am for Unlocking IP project partners, after a round table for members of commons movements around the world from 9 am.

Papers are available from a separate document.

OUTLINE

DAY 1 Mon 10th - Creating Commons: Public rights and public domain in law and theory

1 - National and international dimensions of commons

2 - Creating Commons: Theories and realities

3 - Fair use or fair dealing?: Effects of the proposed reforms

4 - Critiques of licensing solutions

5 - Do Technical Protection Measures (TPMs) destroy commons?

6 - Patents: From anti-commons to cooperative strategies

7:30 Conference Dinner - Thai Potong Newtown

DAY 2 Tues 11th - Creating Commons: Progress in the public and educational sectors

7 - Open content, creators, and business models

8 - Public sector: cost recovery or commons?

9 - Optimising educational access

10 - The spectrum of licensing models and standards

11 - Finding the public domain

12 - Learning IP: Managing learning resources in education

5:00 Champagne Farewell (to conference, and UNSW Law Faculty original home)
Rooftop terrace, 11th floor, UNSW Law Faculty

DAY 1 Mon 10th - Creating Commons: Public rights and public domain in law and theory

8:30 Registration, tea coffee and pastries for 9:00 start

1 - National and international dimensions of commons

CHAIR: Prof Graham Greenleaf, UNSW Faculty of Law

• Prof Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law, University of Ottawa; Creative Commons Canada
  'Canada's public domain' [09:05am]
• Andres Guadamuz, E-commerce lecturer, University of Edinburgh
  'International currents: A report from the iCommons Summit <icommons.org/category/summit/>, Brazil 2006' [09.30am]
• Prof Brian Fitzgerald, QUT Faculty of Law and Creative Commons Australia
  'OAK Law: Conceptualizing a fundamental right to share/access knowledge' [09:45am]
• Discussion [10:05am]

MORNING TEA [10:20am]

2 - Creating Commons: Theories and realities

CHAIR: Prof Jill McKeough, UTS Faculty of Law [10:35am]

• Prof Peter Drahos, Professor in Law, ANU; Head of Program of Regulatory Institutions Network; Director, Centre for Governance of Knowledge & Development
  'Freedom and Diversity: A Defence of the Intellectual Commons' [abstract] [10:40am]
• Dr Jane Anderson, Research Fellow in Intellectual Property at AIATSIS and
  Prof Kathy Bowrey, UTS Faculty of Law
  'The cultural politics of the IP Commons' [11:00am]
• Prof Graham Greenleaf, UNSW Faculty of Law and AustLII
  'Creating commons by friendly appropriation' [11:20am]
• Discussion [11:40am]

3 - Fair use or fair dealing?: Effects of the proposed reforms

CHAIR: Bryan Mercurio, Director, International Trade and Development Project Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW [11:55am]

• Emily Hudson, Law School, University of Melbourne, Assoc Prof Andrew Kenyon, Centre for Media and Communications Law, U Melb. and Prof Andrew Christie, Director, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA)
  'Fair use exceptions and practices of Australian cultural institutions' [abstract] [12:00am]
• Dr Melissa de Zwart, Senior Lecturer, Monash University Law Faculty
  'Future of Fair Dealing in Australia: Protecting Freedom of Communication' [outline] [12:20pm]
• Dilan Thampapillai, Associate Lecturer, QUT Faculty of Law
  'The fair use enquiry: A question half answered?' [abstract] [12:40pm]
• Ben Atkinson, senior copyright policy researcher, on leave from NSW AG's Department
  Commentator, with special interest in challenges for state governments in fair dealing and copyright policy [12:55pm]
• Discussion [1:00pm]

LUNCH [1:15 pm]

4 - Critiques of licensing solutions

CHAIR: David Vaile, UNSW Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre [2:00pm]

• Catherine Bond, researcher, Unlocking IP project, UNSW
  'Simplification and consistency in Australian public rights licences' [2:05pm]
• Brendan Scott, OSIA
  'The Fallacy of False Negatives: In Defence of a Free Market for Intellectual Property' [outline] [2:20pm]
• Kimberlee Weatherall, Associate Director, IPRIA, University of Melbourne
  'Would you ever recommend a Creative Commons license - and why?' [2:40pm]
• Nic Suzor, Creative Commons Australia
  'Compatibility and Open Content Licencing' [3:00pm]
• Discussion [3:05pm]

AFTERNOON TEA [03:25pm]

5 - TPMs as impediments or facilitators? [Parallel session with 6]

CHAIR: Kimberlee Weatherall, IPRIA [3:40pm]

• Prof Mark Perry, IBM Center for Advanced Studies, Faculty of Science, Computer Science, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario & Nic Suzor, PhD researcher, QUT Faculty of Law
  'Transformational models: from DRM to conducer' [abstract] [3:40pm]
• Dilan Thampapillai, Associate Lecturer, QUT Faculty of Law
  'Implementing Article 17.4.7 of the A-US FTA – the emergence of the access right as a neighbouring right to copyright'
  [abstract] [4:10pm]
• Rusty Russell, Linux Australia
  'TPMs, Open Source Software and Open Content' [4:25pm]
• Discussion [4:45pm]

6 - Patents as impediments or facilitators? [Parallel session with 5]

CHAIR: Prof Peter Drahos, ANU [3:40pm]

• Dianne Nicol, Centre for Law and Genetics, Law Faculty, University of Tasmania
  'Cooperative intellectual property strategies in biotechnology' [abstract] [3:45pm]
• Dr Janet Hope, Centre for Governance of Knowledge and Development, RSSS, ANU
  'Model-mongering in biotechnology R&D: the limits of the "open source" analogy' [4:05pm]
• Bryan Mercurio, UNSW Law Faculty, Director, International Trade and Development Project, Gilbert + Tobin Centre for Public Law
  'Biomedical patents and third world diseases' [4:25pm]
• Discussion [4:45pm]

CLOSE [5:00 PM]

7 for 7:30 Conference Dinner
Thai Potong, King St Newtown

DAY 2 Tuesday 11th - Creating Commons: Progress in the public and educational sectors

8:30 Registration, tea coffee and pastries for 9:00 start

7- Open content, creators, and business models

CHAIR: Dennis McNamara, AEShareNet Ltd [9:00am]

• Dr Roger Clarke, Visiting Professor, UNSW; Xamax Consulting
  'Business models providing incentives to open content' [09:05am]

Panel Discussion, with opening comments [9:25am]:

• Simon Lake, CEO, Screenrights Australia
• Dr Jeremy Fisher, executive director, Australian Society of Authors
• Alida Stanley, Senior Solicitor, Arts Law Centre of Australia
• Raena Lea-Shannon, Frankels Lawyers (arts and film advisor)
• Gordon Renouf, Policy Director, Australian Consumers Association
• Discussion [10:00am]

MORNING TEA [10:20am]

8 - Public sector: cost recovery or commons?

CHAIR: Prof Brian Fitzgerald, QUT [10:35am]

• Andres Guadamuz
  'The UK public sector and the commons' [10:40am]
• Neale Hooper, Whole of Government Licensing Project, Queensland Treasury,
  Dr Anne Fitzgerald, QUT Faculty of Law, and Tim Barker, Queensland Assistant Government Statistician
  'Realising the potential of Queensland public sector databases' [11:05am]
• Alison Shames, State Copyright Manager, NSW Attorney General's Department
  'Open content licensing in the NSW public sector' [11:25am]
• Prof Graham Greenleaf, AustLII
  'Crown copyright, and licensing law to the public' [11:45am]
• Discussion [11:50am]

9 - Optimising educational access

CHAIR: Carol Fripp, CEO, AEShareNet Ltd [12:00pm]

• Delia Browne, National Copyright Director, Ministerial Council on Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs
  'Rethinking Educational Access and Use in the 21 Century' [12:05am]
• Prof Michael Geist, Creative Commons Canada
  'The Canadian education access experience' [12:25pm]
• Scott Kiel-Chisholm, QUT OAK Law Project
  'Open Educational Resources (OER): OECD and Other Projects' [12:45 pm]
• Discussion [1:05pm]

Lunch [1:20pm]

10 - The spectrum of licensing models and standards

CHAIR: Dr Anne Fitzgerald, QUT Faculty of Law [2:05pm]

• Carol Fripp and Dennis Macnamara, AESHareNet,
  'An agnostic approach to open content licensing: Policy and practice in the VET sector' [abstract] [2:10pm]
• Delia Browne, National Copyright Director, MCEETYA
  'Emerging licence models in the school sector' [2:30pm]
• Raena Lee-Shannon, Frankels Lawyers
  'Open standards and technology in government and law: ODF Massachusetts and WACG 1 and 2' [2:45pm]
• Discussion [3:00pm]

AFTERNOON TEA [3:15pm]

11 - Finding the public domain [Parallel session with 12]

CHAIR: Dr Roger Clarke, Visiting Professor, UNSW; Xamax Consulting [3:30pm]

• Ben Bildstein, Researcher, Unlocking IP project, UNSW/AustLII
  'Finding and quantifying Australia's online commons' [3:35pm]
• Philip Chung, Ben Bildstein, Matthew Lee and Graham Greenleaf, AustLII
  'Launch of Unlocking IP search tool: Finding Australian content with various licences' [3:50pm]
• Ray Warouw, Project Manager, ASK-OSS, MELCOE, Macquarie University
  'Finding open source information: ASK-OSS' [outline] [4:10pm]
• Discussion [4:25pm]

12 - Learning IP: Managing learning resources in education [Parallel session with 11]

CHAIR: Rusty Russell, Linux Australia [3:30pm]

• Vanessa Tuckfield, Copyright Officer, Canberra Institute of Technology
  'Understanding public rights: Copyright Kitchen case study'
  [Abstract] [3:35pm]
• Sally Bieleny, Business Analyst, The Le@rning Federation
  'Maximising the volume of accessible digital content for schools' [3:55pm]
• Ernie Ghiglione, LAMS Project Manager, MELCOE, Macquarie University
  'Accessible open content and Creative Commons: The LAMS Community' [outline] [4:15pm]
• Discussion [4:30pm]

Champagne Farewell (to the conference, and to UNSW Law Faculty's original home!) [4:40pm]
Law Faculty common room looking over Botany Bay, 11th floor, UNSW Library Building